Council directs HR to provide full applicant binders for city manager search by July 15

The Yukon City Council directed acting city manager Jeff Deckard and Human Resources to prepare binders containing prescreened city-manager candidate applications and a documented list of any applicants screened out for not meeting minimum requirements; the binders are to be delivered to council members at the July 15 meeting.

HR Director Tamara Vickery told the council the city posted the job on May 16 through NeoGov and that the posting closed June 16. She said staff re-contacted 34 prior applicants from the earlier recruitment and nine of those reapplied. In total the HR office had received 45 applications: 31 in-state and 14 out-of-state. Vickery said that HR will conduct only a minimum-qualification screening (confirming applicants meet the job description’s minimum requirements) and will include in the binders the reasons any applicant was excluded from the candidate list.

Council Member Ronnie Zimmerman moved that HR provide a binder of all applications that passed the minimum standard screen, plus a list of those screened out and the reasons, for each council member to review at the July 15 meeting. The motion passed on a recorded vote. The council said it wants transparency in the hiring process and asked staff to avoid subjective prescreening beyond the minimum qualification check.